Love the one you're with, the joys of staying stock

[skills@eurocarsplus]

[childofthewind]

[erste]

[4Gears4Tires]

[markswagen]

isn't this the small car mount.
small car engine mount

[skills@eurocarsplus]

[Abscate]

While you wankers toss soft analyses around about how dangerous it is to drive slow, Victor Muchuruza wrote a Civil Engineering thesis on this in the 2000s , finding from data that only vehicles under 40 mph on interstates contributed disproportionately to accidents . That doesn’t mean it’s safe to drive 40 on an interstate , just that the dangers are overstated.

If you “ suddenly “ come up on in someone doing 40 , that’s your inattentiveness, not their slow speed, that caused the accident. What if you “suddenly” come up on a cinder block in the road?
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[djkeev]

As I've traveled the States for decades and driving for well over 1/2 century, I have noticed that America's drivers have gotten less "polite" and more have exhibited much more of a "get out of my way dammit!" Attitude.

Part of it is based on changes in society and books have been written about such things.

Part of that is they built the Interstate system during my lifetime too.

The idea presented of needing a bigger engine so one can keep up with the flow of traffic is flawed.

Flawed from a perspective of Law....... ummmm ..... hey dude, you are breaking the Law by speeding.

And also flawed for I've noticed that no matter what I've driven and no matter how fast I go, you are now the leader that must be passed.
Many if the other drivers on your highway simply MUST be in front.
They mindlessly tailgate, they pass unsafely and take risks that shouldn't really be taken.

To use one horrible accident example to scream that we MUST go fast is well..... it's stupid.
An isolated extreme example.

The experience of driving has degraded horribly.
Unless I must, I will budget an extra hour travel time to NOT take any of the Interstate highway system, even locally.

My first trip on I-95 for YEARS was a Month ago when I ran down to Beltsville Md.
and that highway use was only in the final leg of the journey.

We've become a selfish, self servicing, impatient and hurried motorist.

As modern cars get safer and safer, fewer and fewer of these rushed risk takers are dying on the highways. They get "away" with it and suffer no consequences.
Their numbers increase and soon it seems everyone is sucked into their madness!

I've always felt that if a State wanted to close their budget gaps, simply redo the fine structure of speed limit violations to a painful and crippling $$ amount and ENFORCE IT!
Make it a sliding scale starting at painful and ending up as a crippling amount if money.

What does Ohio do?
If you are driving West on Pennsylvania I-80 and immediately upon crossing the border into Ohio, the traffic slows, almost to speed limit slow.

Sure, put in you bigger engine, go have fun.
Honestly if I had the cash and really wanted increased reliability, I'd go with the Ford Zetec conversion.
I see no real reliability gain by pulling out my 30 yr old engine and slipping in a 25 yr old engine.

Anyway.........

Dave
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Ghia
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=392473

Vanagon
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6315537#6315537

Beetle
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=482968&highlight=74+super+vert

[childofthewind]

[vandroid]

We, my wife and me haven't been here very long, but have been waiting for the opportune moment to say,

Change your fuel lines 🔥

High-five Honey ✋

[djkeev]

[childofthewind]

[skills@eurocarsplus]

[bobbyblack]

With the Poll vote at 49 to 48 for the win, I call this thread DEAD.

Lock it up!
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[Ahwahnee]

[Ahwahnee]

[Squidfish]

I put it over the top -- VAG 5-cyl here.
This thread made me laugh.
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[mrshrimp]

[Xevin]

[?Waldo?]

Quick question... as was touched on previously, what constitutes a stock engine in the poll?

Is it stock if you install ratio rockers?
What about a tuned exhaust?
What if someone replaced the 1.9WBX with a 2.1 WBX, is it still a stock engine?
Is a 2.2 WBX still a stock engine?
What about a 2.5 WBX?
What if someone replaces the fuel injection system on a WBX, is it still a stock engine?
What if they also add a turbo to the WBX, still a stock engine?
What if someone installs a later 1.6 non-turbo from a Golf in place of the stock 1.6 non-turbo.
What if someone installs a 1.6TD in place of the 1.6 non-turbo, is it still stock?
What about a 1.7 non-turbo KY engine in a van that used to have a WBX?
What if someone adds a turbo to the KY?
Are AAZ engines still stock engines?
AHU TDI?
What about a Tiico (pretty close to the AAX in South Africa), is that stock?
I-5's do they count as stock?

One of my 4 vans was originally a 1.6 non-turbo diesel engine. Does it still have the 'stock engine' if I replaced it with a 1.9 AHU mTDI? The 1.9 AHU mTDI is probably more similar to a 1.6 non-turbo than a turbo-charged WBX with new fuel injection is to a 1.9 or 2.1 WBX.

Another of my vans was originally a WBX but had an ABA installed.
Considering the AAX in South Africa is that close enough to be considered a stock engine? I pulled the ABA a few years back and installed an AAZ, still stock? Before long it will get the AAZ pulled and a completely rebuilt AHU installed, does that count as stock?

Please don't confuse my post as being any indication that I care at all about the poll, who 'wins' the poll, what is considered stock or not by anyone, what engine you have in your van, whether or not you care what engine I have in my van, etc...